It seems the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is serious about pacing up road repairs, since a tender worth Rs 40 crore for pre-monsoon works has already been floated this month, giving the civic authority a head-start of roughly three months.

As it goes, it is for the first time that such a pre-monsoon tender, for all of the city’s seven zones, has come out in December itself. It is usually reserved for the months of February and March. The BMC has started on the new module this year itself, and expects that the spending on roads would cross Rs 1,000 crore till the end of March.